NAW contributes a special midi version

One year later the compact midibus Mercedes-Benz O 402, optically a shortened O 405, rounded off the urban bus range at its lower end with 50 seats for passengers. The chassis came from the Swiss affiliate NAW Nutzfahrzeuggesellschaft Arbon & Wetzikon, successor to the tradition-steeped Swiss commercial vehicle makers Saurer and FBW. Also in 1985, an Italian bodybuilder produced the compact Mercedes-Benz O 301 touring coach for Daimler-Benz on the basis of the NAW chassis. It closed the gap between the O 309 and the O 303. However, neither midibus was destined to have a long life.

Mercedes-Benz O 402

Mercedes-Benz O 301

1985 was a vintage year for innovations in the regular-service buses with the star. The O 405 got a big brother, the articulated pusher bus O 405 G. As it did with the previous bus series, Daimler-Benz presented a standard rural-service bus, just under 12 meters in length, designating it the O 407. Visually and technically a derivative of the urban bus O 405, it differed from the O 405 among others things in having a one-piece windshield and a higher floor with a luggage compartment underneath as well as a single-wing door at the front. One hundred years after the invention of the automobile by Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz, the company’s buses, with the O 303 and O 405 as mainstay, presented themselves in the very best shape.

Mercedes-Benz O 405 G

Mercedes-Benz O 407